The Days Past, Olam Part2

The World Of Olam (Before the Everstone Series)
There is a great ocean that seems to cover the Olam. Here and there, she has islands. But they are small and desolate. Except for one grand island. One upon which lies the Three Great Kingdoms.

This place of mystery and ancient knowledge was the birthing of a plan that the Coyodoun (All Knowing) set forth for His greatest Elders. These 12 were separated into three Contingents. Each Contingent was given the power to create a species of intelligence and one of the Three Great Kingdoms into which they would be placed. And these were divided by the Great Kingdom Wall. Made from white-stone (a kind of diamond) and quite impenetrable. However, the dragons were given great trust for they could cross the massive walls by flight. Though not all dragons could fly.

And so, it was that the kingdoms were divided into three equal fragments. The only continent upon Olam became the Kingdom of the Dragon, the Kingdom of the Giant, and the Kingdom of the Brasheen.

Though they knew nothing of the other kingdoms, these three came to be and were placed in the center, each, of their own territory. And surrounding them, buried deep in the ground, were four equal stones. These stones were massive, completely out of sight, and unknown to the newly created inhabitants.

Perfectly round, the jewels were twice the height of a giant and possessed powers that would test the people of Olam to their breaking point. In time they would be discovered, and their abilities sorely abused.

The massive crystal-like spheres would eventually become known as Everstones for their ability to give life to individuals. Not just health but to turn one whose life should be a hundred years into one whose life is a thousand years. But only were it to be uncovered in its entirety. So long as they remained hidden in the ground, completely covered by soil, they had only one mystical capability: to open a portal from Olam to another world called Earth.

Through time the people of Olam visited Earth. But the portals were hard to find and so the visits were rare. But the nature of those given free will, as the giants, the dragons, and the brasheen were, often comes much destruction. By the nature of selfish gain and preservation.

In time the source of the portals was discovered to be the Everstones. For near each stone there would be a portal. Which seemed to the individual as random. But in fact, it was typically calculated to match each other across the three kingdoms. Of the four in each realm, there were four portals. And of each portal, there was one to the south, one to the east, one to the north and one to the west. When the stone in the west opened a portal, it was that the one of each kingdom in the west opened. The palatial stars directed the time it was open. Always brief.

Dependent upon the mystical heavens, these stones’ great powers were busy day and night. So, therefore, the portal that opened seemingly at random at each place also opened in both directions. As an open door in a tavern would, one could come or go. And in time, others from Earth came upon the open portals. Some animals, some insects, some leaves and seeds. And some human.

The Giants had within their midst ones that designed to be the leaders with more than just leading in their hearts. These came together to stand out and use their favor to wield the sword and spear, life and limb within their hands and to control their fellow Giants with an iron fist (for the giants were peaceful once). And they succeeded.

Having the knowledge now of the powers given them by the Everstones, they surmised the locations upon the four and dug and dug to expose them. At first not knowing the jewels’ powers to change mere mortal creatures that they were into the undying.

In their visits to Earth, the multitudes of weak humanity became apparent to them. Seeking a faster way to race across space to Earth, they pulled the dirt encasing the stones loose as promptly as they could. Four portals, though they opened only for a short time, would allow their great numbers to move. But upon unearthing the stones from each of the four corners, instead of four hidden portals opening larger or longer, a great gulf opened precisely in the midst of their valley, the same distance from each of the four Everstones. So great they could march thousands into Earth as they saw fit. But it was only to be for moments.

Having been taken by shock, the giants were not ready to cross the distance then and sought to understand the process by which they could reopen the massive portal.

This passage would take years to complete.

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